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I have a question regarding the scripts. When tv shows or movies record the actors do they do it after everything is animated and the actors watch it as they read or do they record it before hand and just make sure the animation matches the scripts? Just curious...learning. Thanks

Its done before.

How else would you be able to synchronize the animation to the voices?
The animation of the mouths moving must be done according to the voice track.
If a actor stresses a certain word, the timing of the animation reflects that.

A script might have the word " yes", but the actor delivers the lines as "Yeeeesssssssssssssssss", so obviously the actual delivery will affect how the line appears on screen.

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I have a question regarding the scripts. When tv shows or movies record the actors do they do it after everything is animated and the actors watch it as they read or do they record it before hand and just make sure the animation matches the scripts? Just curious...learning. Thanks

See, everyone remembers that sequence in Mrs. Doubtfire and just assumes that is they way its done...

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well it depends greatly on your project/budget etc. Ideally it is done beforehand but in certain cases they work with a scratch track which is done by cheaper vo artists to work as an indicator for the animators.

the final vo can be done in post. in the rare case some films have been dubbed after production.

Studio Ghibli do it the other way round,they animate first then get the voice actors in to do their performance in front of the animation. They did films like Spirited away, Howl's moving castle.

If you think about all the dubbing that goes on for big hollywood films, its quite a similar process to add the sound after.

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Considering facial animation in anime tends to be a combination of holds and repeated mouth shape cycles of three or five frames, it's easy to crudely adjust mouth movements to pre-recorded dialogue.
For exact lip synch and subtler acting animation this method doesn't work. Many animators will also argue that being able to listen to pre-recorded voices makes for much better acting animation because so much emotion is conveyed in a voice which carries over to facial expressions.